50 Essential ’90s Country Songs

This list of 50 essential '90s country music hits brings all kinds of warm feels. The simplicity, the melodies, the head-jerking turn toward pop music and the mullets ... it's all here, and it's all a wonderful trip down memory lane.

It's possible this list of great 1990s country songs is also some sort of primer to understanding the decade, but no one is taking a college course on '90s country music (yet), so we'll just present these 50 songs as the best the decade offered. There are 50 songs by 50 different artists here — you'll only find one song from Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and Brooks & Dunn (three definitive '90s hitmakers), because lesser-known singers like Daryle Singletary, Rick Trevino and Joe Diffie are equally important in defining what country music fans stood for in the 1990s.